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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Don’t want to start WWIII but even I and my fifty buttplugs were surprised to hear that WALMART was selling sex toys.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Besides banning the sale of sex toys, the Texas Obscenity Statute also specified the number of “obscene devices”—for example, dildos—a person could own: six. The number was not chosen at random, but rather because lawmakers assumed that people who owned more than six obscene devices that were identical or similar had the intent to distribute them.

Theoretically, it should be possible to have more than six obscene devices without by guilty of intending to supply them - cock ring, butt plug, fleshlight, dildo, strap-on, inflatable sheep, Ben Wa balls, nipple clamps and penis cage. All have different uses, all without intending to supply.

If supply was the concern (although I don't know why), perhaps criminalise that not the bottom drawer of my bedside table.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Fine. I'm a defender of gun rights. No more than six or you intend to distribute. Let's rock.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That's interesting:

(f) A person who possesses six or more obscene devices or identical or similar obscene articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same.

So it's not just 6 obscene devices, you could have two Rampant Rabbits and break the law. I assume a double-ended dildo counts as one obscene device unless they can be disengaged to make two identical ones.

"Obscene devices" is rather a loose term too. The kinky are likely to have quite a few knocking about but for personal use only.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They define them in 43.21(7), albeit, still quite loosely:

(7) "Obscene device" means a device including a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.

So maybe a devices like the magic wand is in the clear since it's marketed as a massager. I wonder if a vibrator could simply be repackaged and marketed as a massager, as well.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (3 children)

This is disrespectful to George Washington the founder of America who was mostly Dicks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

I heard that motherfucker had like... 30 god-damned dicks.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Texas is weird.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Need to make a proposal to limit cross walls to a maximum of 6 crosses.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

IANAL, but this law is (probably) not currently enforceable due to (among others) Lawrence v. Texas.

However, that was explicitly named as being on the chopping block, so at best it's "not enforceable yet"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

You said "anal". Heh!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (7 children)

This doesn't effect me, I don't shop at Walmart or have more than six holes.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Policemen Josh and Wade showing up to a party:

Josh: "Alright Wade, let's make sure there are not more than 6 erections in there."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

If you get caught, just say its The Salad Mixxxer.

[–] rumba 8 points 6 days ago

The lawmakers are afraid of the competition

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hairbrush and shampoo bottle sales about to go through the roof.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

And yet they have such unearned pride as a bastion of freedumb.

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